Healthcare Finance News March 12, 2025
Hospitals would face the largest revenue losses and burden of uncompensated care increases, report finds.
Cutting Medicaid funding and halting the program’s expansion would result in providers revenues decreasing by about $80 billion, and uncompensated care on behalf of uninsured people would increase by $18.9 billion in 2026 due to declines in health insurance coverage, finds a report from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Among all provider types, hospitals would face the largest revenue losses ($31.9 billion) and burden of uncompensated care increases ($6.3 billion).
About 10.8 million more people would become uninsured if all states were to drop the Medicaid expansion, with the number of uninsured increasing by 50% or more in half of expansion...
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